For Men Only
This section of essays is about the crisis in men's fertility and what a man needs to do to to keep his physical body sex parts functional. In this world of synthetics and hormone overuse we are sterilizing ourselves.
The title does not mean that women should not read this but that men need to read this or their sex apparatus will likely stop working - sterility. No one can keep a man from being taken over by this pollution to his gonads except the man himself. Some women I know are aware that the use of birth-control pills in youth produces tumors and other malignancies of the uterus and ovaries. Women have learned to take care of their gonads and men will have to do it too. A lot of men will leave their health to the care of (a - any - some) woman, claiming ignorance, but they do so at their own risk.
The following article was taken from ACRES USA, a monthly news magazine about organic farming that publishes a lot of news about poisons being put into our ecosystem. This is about something that is poisoning all of us today. The date of publication was December 2003.
The Feminine Factor
Estrogen feminizes male fish It also bestows feminine markers on the mammal and probably insect life. This commonsense fact was tested by scientists by inserting residue of birth control pills into lake waters.
Canadians used similar products to measure the hypothesis. In three years all male fish, frogs and aquatic life became feminine. Egg proteins started growing out of place, meaning in the male. The experiment was meant to measure the effect that estrogen in effluent and sewer treatments were having on bodies of water later used for drinking water supply.
Some fish grew eggs in their testes. The entire population of the flathead minnows crashed to near-zero because the hormone stoked fish couldn't reproduce.
Males seem to respond to an overload of estrogen in a very predicable way, according to a paper presented to the American Chemistry Council.
That hormones have been hurting wildlife has been observed before. The effect of soybean based estrogen on sexual development has been made a matter of record in New Zealand, where male birds became part female. The Canadian study seemed to ask whether estrogen was affecting the human male population. A recent study in "Environmental Health Perspectives" found that rural men had lower sperm counts when exposed to certain pesticides which mimic estrogens.
More subtle is the estrogen content of extenders in fast food hamburgers. Some youngsters almost live on this food. Although powerful, this source is small compared to estrogen that escapes treatment plants and ends up in rivers, lakes, even ocean shelves. Sexual oddities in animals such as hermaphroditism are being assigned to this chemical family. Disruption of the endocrine system is assumed.
A few cattle men have made the connection with the herd bull's inability to settle cows, have withheld soy meal from seed stock.
Canada has a few remote lakes that are being used for probing nature's secrets and revulsions. These lakes are hours away from population centers, The answer to some parts of this problem -- taking civilization for what it is -- may be finding that microorganisms that can dismantle estrogen compounds either with their power or longer residence in the treatment plant.
I might add that these estrogenic chemicals are added to all animal, chicken and farm-fish foods to make the meat fat and juicy in the market display case. These chemicals caponize (castrate) the males and maybe the females too. Then when you eat these tender morsels, you become a tender morsel too. My father put hormone capsules under the skin of turkeys in 1950 when this stuff was very new. I have been thankful that I left home territory in 1951.
This problem of male sterility is a racial tragedy. The individual tragedies are enormous one at a time: sex organs cut out by surgeons, limp dicks, strange menstrual maladies, inability to have children. On the national level - a sterile race in a generation or two.
Of course this means zero population growth to those nations which use estrogens for birth control or animal feeds. This is not necessarily bad. Other species of humans have vanished and been replaced by new species. For instance: there are no more Neanderthal people, no more Austropithecus people, few Celtic people, and lots of bones of our ancestors/predecessors laying about in odd places on the planet.
This information is staggering to our imagination. But other news is just beginning to appear: precocious puberty. Children between 3 and 9 years of age are turning into teenagers before the usual 12 or 13. Whether this is due to estrogens in the water supply has not been explored yet, but this is a likely event. Look up 'precocious puberty' on the internet and become aware of what is happening. All the news is coming through MD's, no reporting is being done by herbalists, acupuncturists or other medical professionals.
What to do about this? It is too early for any of the medical professions to have found a remedy yet. However, I have a few suggestions to make without any experience at all. These are based on 20 years of experience with food as herbalism, East and West.
- Stop eating meat from agribusiness supermarkets. Estrogens must be most concentrated there.
- Supermarket eggs are an absolute NO - NO. Crack a farmers free ranging chicken egg into a cup and a supermarket egg into another cup and look at them. a) The farmers egg yolk is almost orange, the agribiz egg yolk is pale. b) The farmers egg yolk stands tall on its own; the agribiz yolk is weak and can't sit up / stand up on its own. c) The white of the farmers egg clings to the yolk and hugs it. The agribiz egg white is watery and can't hug the yolk. d) Cook the two separately and taste the difference. The label USDA ORGANIC on the egg carton is ridiculous.
- Stop eating supermarket butter and get some from a farmer: once in a while, when you can. When I first started eating organic, I would not eat butter unles I knew the cow (and the pasture it ate from). The farm butter taste is good and is golden with vitamins et cetera, et cetera. Agribiz butter is so pale it has color added to keep it from looking sickly. No "et cetera, et cetera" here. Look for the "color added" message on the box. When the farm cow gets into a clover pasture in the spring, the the cow's butter turns deep yellow. Delicious! I grew up with a real cow.
- Fish grown on "fish farms" are fed food with estrogens in it too. Some "fish farms" are only fenced in ocean "farms " which are no different from agribiz farms anywhere. Shrimp are very often grown in these oceanic "farms". Look carefully for the label on the box/bag.
Evidence for male sterility/dysfunction has been obvious for over 5 years. I first noticed it in health-food stores. Five years ago or more, men's herbs section on the shelves was only 6 inches of shelf space, In 2006 there was a 6 foot shelf space in one store and a 3 foot shelf in another store in the boondocks of Tennessee.
Then I started paying attention to all the sex drugs like viagra, coalis (?sp) and similar stuff to give a man an upstanding functional dick. Th prices are outrageous. $5 a pill. Men are losing their maleness! Lots of them.
Aphrodisiacs have always been welcome playthings. But these pills are more than playthings.
According to the records of Traditional Chinese medicine, the human female reproductive apparatus should stop working at 49. 'Early menopause' is now happening at 42: this is an illness, not a blessing. The male apparatus should stop being fertile about age 64, (Comedian George Burns lasted much longer - maybe to 100.) Read the essay on Walnuts for a first step in recovering from sterility caused by pollution. For a second step, detoxify the body of ordinary pollutants as well as the estrogenic ones. A three day fast on rice conji is a good start. Then find a Chinese herbalist and do the male sex repair kit.
(Written: February '07)